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...Hollywood celebs is taking the concept of dressing down a few notches lower by turning their pajamas into outerwear. Classic men's cuts in fun colors and prints, often more than $100 a pair, are being worn in pieces: bottoms only with a T shirt, a camisole or a swimsuit; or just the long-sleeved top over a sexy T shirt as a jacket for the evening. "My daughter at college in Santa Barbara wants to sell pj bottoms out of her dorm," says Dory Forge, designer of the spirited pj line Lounge Act. "Kids there are living in them...
...long ago the most controversial thing about beauty pageants was the swimsuit segment. As the latest Miss World contest proved, those simple times are over. Hundreds died in riots last month after a Nigerian journalist suggested the Prophet Muhammad might have approved of the pageant and maybe even found a wife among the contestants. The pageant was moved from Nigeria to London, and on Saturday Miss Turkey, Azra Akin, ended the whole nightmare by walking away with the tiara and $150,000 prize. Pageant co-host Sean Kanan, an actor from the U.S. soap The Bold and the Beautiful, made...
...Hotel,beauty queen headquarters, hums with excitement. Photographers chain-smoke and chatter in French, English and Hindi. A TV crew is setting up in acorner, but the contestants, weary from the media attention, have retreated to their rooms. It's only an hour before the start of the swimsuit round, and it's raining. "Oh, my poor girls," laments Lobsang Wangyal,producer of the Shambala Miss Tibetbeauty pageant. "They are going to freeze." Wangyal stops to bark a question at one ofhis assistants: "How are we doing on the judges?" Moments later a mobile phone rings. "We got the princess...
...Wangyal would like nothing better,but right now he's fixated on the swimsuit round. The music starts up and the contestants gather at the pool gate, nervously tugging on their outfits. One by one they stroll up to the makeshift platform, to pose and pout. Then, in perilously high heels, they negotiate the cracked flagstone path back to the gate, only to collapse in nervous giggles. Lhakpa Dolma, 26, finishes her round with an open-armed shrug and a wry grin. Though her bathing suit?a demure tank with shorts?would win few points in an international contest...
...feel of one of those swimsuit magazine photo shoots, except the models—seniors Neil Rose and Carl Morris, plus junior Dante Balestracci—were glistening with sweat instead of tanning oil, and the set was the less-than-exotic concrete monolith of Harvard Stadium...